Warren Szewczyk

In lieu of a column this week, I had the opportunity to sit down with the keynote speaker for Pomona’s Moving Minds Symposium, Dr. V.S. Ramachandran. Our talk ranged from how arts and sciences interact, to the nature of consciousness, to the importance of liberal arts colleges in understanding the

Dear reader, I regret to inform you that you are, at most, only 10 percent human. This may come as a surprise to you. Understandably, most of us operate under the assumption that we are what we see in the mirror: a collection of a trillion or so human cells

Every single day, your brain makes an almost unquantifiable number of decisions. In the last five minutes alone, it decided where, how, and why you would sit or stand where you currently are. This decision was based on information about your mood, your current responsibilities, and your perception of the

I think everyone has seen enough pictures of Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, and tentatively named baby “North” to know what designer clothes are. But garments are not the only things that come in “designer” varieties. That label can be applied to everything from furniture to jewelry, from accessories to …

One of the most iconic lines from Keanu Reeves’s most iconic film comes when Reeves, playing Neo in The Matrix, connects to a computer, twitches as if receiving an electric shock, and then opens his eyes and says, “I know kung fu.” This is certainly not the most extreme technological